research assistant
Chongqing Public Health Medical Center, China
My name is Yao Li. I acquired my bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Engineering at Southwest University of Science and Technology in June, 2015. Because of my excellent academic performance in school, I subsequently obtained an entrance examination-free opportunity to enter Chongqing Medical University to pursue further scientific training. During my postgraduate study, I majored in Pharmacy, and graduated in June, 2018. From July, 2018 till now, I work as a research assistant in Chongqing Public Health Medical Centre. Nowadays, I play the leader role in a four-member team, and the project that we are engaging in aims to determine the pathogenesis of immune failure of HIV positive individuals using transcriptional omics and metabolomics. At the same time, I participated in several National Science and Technology Major Projects. I’m therefore familiar with several HIV-related opportunistic infections (especially Cryptococcus neoformans and Toxoplasma gondii), and strategies of pre-exposure prophylaxis for men who have sex with men.